Overview

• A RepTrak survey finds 22.6% of Spaniards fault the government for the April blackout, 20% blame Red Eléctrica de España and 15.7% point to private electricity companies.
• Forty-two point three percent of respondents rate the government's response as “very poor,” 30.5% say the same of REE and 20.5% award private companies “very good” marks.
• A June 17 report by a technical committee blamed overvoltages, grid oscillations and plant disconnections for the outage and ruled out any cyberattack.
• Red Eléctrica has released its own analysis blaming protocol failures by generators, and the private sector union Aelec has accused the system operator of inadequate conventional generation planning.
• The CNMC will issue a binding liability report next, and utilities have filed legal challenges contesting the inquiry’s authority.